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Masterson

Masterson( )
Author: Wheeler, Richard S.
ISBN:978-1-58547-079-2
Publication Date:Apr 2001
Publisher:Center Point Large Print
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $27.95
Book Description:

Winner of the 2000 Spur Award for Best Western Novel. "This is classic Wheeler, a solid story about real people told with wit, compassion and a bit of whimsy." - Publishers Weekly. The year is 1919 and Bat Masterson - lawman, gambler, and crony of Wyatt Earp - is working as a sports columnist on the New York Morning Telegraph and enjoying his last legal whiskey as Prohibition looms. Though Bat is bothered by the passage of the Volstead Act, he's even more concerned about the legends...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Westerns
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):2.34 x 9.36 Inches
Book Weight:1.65 Pounds
Author Biography
Wheeler, Richard S. (Author)
Richard S. (Shaw) Wheeler was born in Milwaukee in 1935 and grew up in nearby Wauwatosa. Wheeler spent three years in Hollywood in the mid-50s, where he worked in a record store and took acting lessons while struggling as a screenwriter. He eventually returned home, and attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

He spent over a decade as a newspaperman, working as an editorial writer for the Phoenix Gazette, editorial page editor for the Oakland, California, Tribune, reporter on the Nevada Appeal in Carson City, and reporter and assistant city editor for the Billings, Montana, Gazette.

In 1972, he turned to book editing, working in all for four publishers through 1987. As an editor for Walker & Company he edited twelve Western novels a year. Sandwiched between editing stints, in the mid-70s he worked at the Rancho de la Osa dude ranch in Sasabe, Arizona, on the Mexican border. There, in the off season, he experimented with his own fiction and wrote his first novel, Bushwack, published by Doubleday in 1978.

Five more Western novels followed Bushwack before Wheeler was able to turn to writing full time: Beneath the Blue Mountain (1979), Winter Grass (1983), Sam Hook (1986), Richard Lamb (1987) and Dodging Red Cloud (1987).

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